Art Quote by Jessica Hische

I think you have to know exactly what you want. Whether you want to be a guitar player or a musician, you have to…

— Jonny Lang

It's dedicating yourself to your craft. Spending thousands of hours in a studio learning how to write a song, learning how to play different…

— Bruno Mars

I do a lot of the stuff that I started out doing that I think any guitar player that's concerned about the craft needs…

— John Petrucci

I didn't start to collect records and listen to guitar players properly until I went to art school, when I'd already been playing for…

— Pete Townshend

I guess that somehow I've survived as a professional guitar player. I've made it 16 years now and I feel like I'm just getting…

— Monte Pittman

Playing is much, much harder than composing in my opinion, becoming a player. If you want to be a player for all your life…

— John Powell

You have to be gifted to begin with, of course, but what follows is a process that takes a very long time. You train,…

— Neeti Mohan

Spending eight to ten hours every single day practicing the instrument, starting from an early age, makes an instrumentalist spend his/her lifetime to hone…

— Shweta Basu Prasad

My advice for young people is that, if you want to be a musician, the thing to do is practice eight hours a day.

— T Bone Burnett

Practice? I never practice. I just write songs and take solos.

— Tom Verlaine

I guess anybody who plays can say that they play guitar, but if you want to be a guitarist, you've got to practice all…

— Jake Pitts

I had been practicing guitar about six months beforehand; I concentrated mostly on the songs I had to play. I got those down pretty…

— Freddie Highmore